Book Description
Summary
Scala in Depth is a unique new book designed to help you integrate Scala effectively into your development process. By presenting the emerging best practices and designs from the Scala community, it guides you though dozens of powerful techniques example by example.
About the Book
Scala is a powerful JVM language that blends the functional and OO programming models. You’ll have no trouble getting introductions to Scala in books or online, but it’s hard to find great examples and insights from experienced practitioners. You’ll find them in Scala in Depth.
There’s little heavy-handed theory here—just dozens of crisp, practical techniques for coding in Scala. Written for readers who know Java, Scala, or another OO language.
What’s Inside
Concise, expressive, and readable code style
Integrate Scala into your existing Java projects
Scala’s 2.8.0 collections API
How to use actors for concurrent programming
Mastering the Scala type system
Scala’s OO features—type member inheritance, multiple inheritance, and composition
Functional concepts and patterns—immutability, applicative functors, and monads
About the Author
Josh Suereth is a software developer with Typesafe. He is a Scala committer and the maintainer of scala-tools.org.
Table of Contents
- Copyright
- Brief Table of Contents
- Table of Contents
- Foreword
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- About this Book
- About the Cover Illustration
- Chapter 1. Scala—a blended language
- Chapter 2. The core rules
- Chapter 3. Modicum of style—coding conventions
- Chapter 4. Utilizing object orientation
- Chapter 5. Using implicits to write expressive code
- Chapter 6. The Type System
- Chapter 7. Using implicits and types together
- Chapter 8. Using the right collection
- Chapter 9. Actors
- Chapter 10. Integrating Scala with Java
- Chapter 11. Patterns in functional programming
- Index
- List of Figures
- List of Tables
- List of Listings